Binding: Hardcover
Description: In 2012, David Ferry capped a long career as a poet with a National Book Award given in honor of his book Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations. But he had no interest in resting on his laurels. In fact he was in the middle of the most ambitious poetic project of his life. Six years earlier at age eighty - two he had embarked on a complete translation of one of the foundational works of Western culture: Virgil's Aeneid. Now we have it and it is a glorious thing. Ferry has long been known as perhaps the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics having established themselves as much - admired standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius rendering Virgil's formal metrical lines into an English that is familiar and alive. Yet in doing so he surrenders none of the feel of the ancient world that resonates throughout the poem and gives it the power that has drawn readers to it for centuries. In Ferry's hands the Aeneid becomes once more a lively dramatic poem of daring and adventure of love and loss devotion and death. Never before have Virgil's twin gifts of poetic language and fleet storytelling been presented so powerfully for English - language readers. Ferry's Aeneid will be a landmark a gift to longtime lovers of Virgil and the perfect entry point for new readers. " I sing of arms and the man ." The epic journey from the fall of Troy to the founding of Rome is ready to begin. Join us.
Title: The Aeneid
Author(s): Virgil
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226450186
Pages: 432 Pages
Publication Date: 9/29/2017
Category: Literature: History & Criticism